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    Got the following at a used book sale today:

    Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
    Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon
    Parade's End - Ford Madox Ford
    Winterwood - Patrick McCabe
    an Irish Literature Anthology

    The book sale was to raise money for scholarships as the university I work at. At $1/pound, I couldn't resist.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grit View Post
    That's funny Sancho. It reminds me of when I ordered in a textbook on psychopathy. The look that clerk had as I spelled out the title was pretty funny. "Yeah it's called Without Conscience: The disturbing world of psychopaths around us." I wanted to say "It's not a self help book!"
    Haha!

    Always a good idea to have an excuse ready when you're purchasing something embarrassing: "Uh, those right there are my art magazines."
    Uhhhh...

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    "I Have Manners" its a little picture book published by Scholastic part of the Best I can be series. Why? Because my class is drives me round the bend sometimes with their 'bad manners' (shouting over each other, talking with food in their mouths (licking my face but there is sadly no reference to that in the book) so I thought why not have some extra reinforcement?
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    The last book I bought was 'Sweet Tooth' by Ian McEwan. I'm plodding stoically through it, but not enjoying it that much. I wish I'd spent the money on A.S. Byatt's 'Ragnorak' instead...
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    I just went to a book market, for the second time since it opened, I bought 14 books the first time but only 4 yesterday. I was very happy to find an old copy of Praxis by Fay Weldon, I have wanted it for years. I also got a history book and a book on literature here on the ice around 1500 and one by Susan Sontag. I'm gonna try and get Praxis into my reading schedule now but it will take me awhile to finish I think.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sancho View Post
    Haha!

    Always a good idea to have an excuse ready when you're purchasing something embarrassing: "Uh, those right there are my art magazines."
    There's no earthly reason for apologising to anyone for buying or reading Gone with the Wind. It's one of the great American novels, up there with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Moby Dick--all of which contain racial prejudice. The fact that they were all written in the 19th century merely illustrates the racial prejudice of that time. Along comes the 20th century, and the invention of films. One of the best color films (1939) won an Academy Award for a black actress; and as for greatness--Gone With the Wind still is being read by white students, but black students are taught to fear or to disdain it. The same with ...Huckleberry Finn.
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    The Collected Works of William Butler Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays, because it contains two essays on Blake and I'm currently assembling a collection of books on him.

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    The Theodore Roosevelt Treasury, leatherbound, published by Easton Press. On a trip across country I stopped off at the beautiful National Park in his name. He seems like someone I would like to know more about. I also am interested in reading his own thoughts and opinions on things. The book, being a collection of his correspondence, seems like an ideal way to do that.

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    Infinite Jest - a friend recommended it.
    Vegan slow cooker recipes - I just bought a slow cooker and needed something to make in it

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    Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel. I liked Wolf Hall and was curious about how she would develop the story further.
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    William Blake: The Complete Illuminated Books because I only have a smaller edition of the illuminated Songs of Innocence and of Experience, and I am hungry for more of this beautiful coupling of words and images.

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    The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai
    Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec

    Bought on the recommendation of a fellow litnet user...Also as a reward to myself for getting straight A's last quarter. Can't buy any books for a long while now, though.

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